Aridom82
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'FOX NEWS - Authorities are trying to solve the case of the bear found dead with a golf ball in his brain. More at six...'
What was your most interesting recent non solar project?
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raurre
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Oddly when you put it in the bed of your pickup truck looking like the taliban, nobody wants to ride with you.
Aridom82
Learning addict
That may be too much even if it was Texas. The guy from kentucky ballistics would love it.
It looks like a lot of fun ngl.
42OhmsPA
What's in a title?
I've always wanted to make something that launches golf balls. I've had plenty of fun with walnuts in a potato gun, quarter sticks in a potato sent airborne are a blast as well...
Yours is next level.
Thanks for some inspiration
raurre
Solar Enthusiast
Be careful if you use acetylene for the propellant it has a sharp pressure curve. You have to account for it or you can make a metal fatigue bomb instead of a toy.
marionw
Solar Addict
Solar Powered, Remote Controlled, Double Barrel Mortar Launcher
Mortars of the standard 4 to 5 inch mortars you can by at a fireworks stand
This launcher sits in field about 350 feet from my sons back porch.
4 Buttons on remote:
First opens hatch and arms the launcher
Second launches mortar tube one
Third launches mortar tube two
Forth closes hatch.
The hatch cannot be closed within 15 seconds of initiating a launch (give the fuse time to burn and launch)
The hatch will automatically close 15 seconds after initiating the second launch or 30 minutes after initiating a single launch.
Mortars of the standard 4 to 5 inch mortars you can by at a fireworks stand
This launcher sits in field about 350 feet from my sons back porch.
4 Buttons on remote:
First opens hatch and arms the launcher
Second launches mortar tube one
Third launches mortar tube two
Forth closes hatch.
The hatch cannot be closed within 15 seconds of initiating a launch (give the fuse time to burn and launch)
The hatch will automatically close 15 seconds after initiating the second launch or 30 minutes after initiating a single launch.
Mortar_Launcher
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Aridom82
Learning addict
Ideal to conduct a decent barrage against squirrels when the power is out.
marionw
Solar Addict
Actually used to scare away predatory birds that want to get to the 70 some free range chickens (with 20 more on the way)
OffGridForGood
Catch, make or grow everything you can.
Think of it this way:Looks like about when I hit one with my .458 Socomwith 31gr of H110. Behind a 350 gr Barns TTSX they open up to about .97”
a Golf Ball is like a 1.680 caliber, 735 gr round.
S Davis
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Yes but I can shoulder my .458 a lot easier.Think of it this way:
a Golf Ball is like a 1.680 caliber, 735 gr round.
Aridom82
Learning addict
How deep did you make the hole underneath? I worked as a gardener for 7 years and i used to plant olive trees. I used a mini excavator because they insisted we dig holes at least 120 cm deep (around 4 feet). It helped greatly the development of that tree in the first two years, making it reach a bigger size much earlier.
42OhmsPA
What's in a title?
Gotta let those roots go free...
I love olives, wonder if I could plant them in PA; my fig does pretty good every year.
Aridom82
Learning addict
There is not much difference in latitude. The ones i worked with were in Umbria, 800m elevation and they did pretty good. During the winter we could get -10 celsius and i never saw any damage. As a gardener you always hope for a cold winter because it kills a lot of parasites making the work much easier. We used the olives to make ovile oil, there is a big olive oil culture here in Italy, there is a lot of people that make their own.
OffGridForGood
Catch, make or grow everything you can.
Do you ?
Daddy Tanuki
Solar Wizard
hell yeah!
Daddy Tanuki
Solar Wizard
we will revisit that answer when you have gotten 10 years older and your joints are all worn out 
Daddy Tanuki
Solar Wizard
full suspension... my kidney's thank me for that.
Daddy Tanuki
Solar Wizard
I would imagine, the only long gun I have ever fired other than an M-16a1 and a2 was a 12 gauge shotgun, I would guess that your rifle probably is somewhere close to that. yes? no?
A 10 round mag and your shoulder is about done
S Davis
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Not sure but it will sling a 350gr about 1700ftps.
Aridom82
Learning addict
Unfortunately not, i dont have olive trees of my own, but anybody that has 15 - 20 trees usually does. I was the guy doing it for the country hotels i worked for years ago. After harvesting them with a group of flunkies i just brought them to the 'frantoio', a small business with all the equipment to do cold extraction of oil from olives, and you pay them a fee derived from the weight of the olives he processed for you.
OffGridForGood
Catch, make or grow everything you can.
I wish I could grow an olive tree...maybe inside my Greenhouse.
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